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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
They offer their petition—that it might be thus ordained: wherefore lift up your prayer; it may be: pray you for us to the Lord your God for all this remnant (Jer 42:2). Prayer is lifted up, through eminence of contemplation: I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains (Ps 120:1); through fervor of affection: let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens (Lam 3:41); through tears of compunction: every night I will lift up (Ps 6:7); lift up weeping (Joel 1:5); through zeal for good works: the lifting up of my hands …
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